---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 C.F.R. § 701.5"
title: "18"
number: "701.5"
heading: "Organization pattern."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/18/701.5"
---

# §701.5. Organization pattern.

- (a) The Office of the Water Resources Council is composed of the Water Resources Council, the Chairman of the Water Resources Council, the Water Resources Council Staff headed by a Director, and Field Organizations within its jurisdiction.
- (b) **The Water Resources Council consists of the following Members—** The Secretary of Agriculture; the Secretary of the Army; the Secretary of Commerce; the Secretary of Energy; the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; the Secretary of the Interior; the Secretary of Transportation; and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- (c) **The Chairman of the Council is designated by the President.**
- (d) The Water Resources Council staff is employed, assigned duties and responsibilities, and supervised by the Director.
- (e) The Council Members shall establish an Interagency Liaison Committee. Task forces may be established and assigned duties by the Director with the concurrence of the Members, and/or action of the Council. Any Council Member may provide each task force with whatever representation he or she deems necessary.
- (f) Field organizations are established by or operate under the Council and include field committees formerly under the Inter-Agency Committee on Water Resources and the offices of the Chairmen of Federal-State River Basin Commissions established under Title II of the Act.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 43 FR 25944, June 15, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 402, Pub. L. 89-80; 79 Stat. 244, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1962-1962d-5), unless otherwise noted.